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Subject(s)

• Aristotle—Rhetoric [Browse]
• Fārābī—Khiṭābah [Browse]
• Avicenna 980-1037—Kitāb al-majmū [Browse]
• Averroës 1126-1198—Talkhīṣ al-khiṭābah [Browse]
• Rhetoric—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Series

Landmarks in rhetoric and public address. [More in this series]

Contains

• Fārābī. Khiṭābah. English. [Browse]
• Avicenna, 980-1037. Kitāb al-majmū. English. [Browse]
• Averroës, 1126-1198. Talkhīṣ al-khiṭābah. Selections. English. [Browse]

Summary note

Winner, 2018 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature It is increasingly well documented that western rhetoric's journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of Christian Europe was significantly influenced by the intellectual thought of the Muslim Near East.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.

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Language note

English

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Al-Fārābī's Book of Rhetoric
• Avicenna's Compendium, or Al-ʻArūḍī's Philosophical Treatise on the Meanings of the Book of Rhetoric
• Averroes's Middle Commentary on the Book of Rhetoric (Book One)
• Conclusion.

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ISBN

0-8093-3414-3

OCLC

920231369

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